There are three important scenes that take place on the scaffold. The first scene like the other scenes takes place in the center of town. Hester a young women who is holding her newborn daughter pearl makes her way to a scaffold, where she is to be publicly condemned for her sin of adultery. While she is up on the scaffold she sees her husband Chillingworth in the crowd and in disbelief she squeezes pearl tight to her making the baby cry. Also Dimmesdale, the priest of the town, who is Hester’s lover, was also in the crowd. But instead of willingly standing on the scaffold with Hester he shows his moral degeneracy and lack of bravery and lets her stand up there alone. He even remarked “That the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation” (pg.63). The fact that he says that is ironic because he is the cause of this scandal. In the second scaffold scene you get to see Dimmesdale’s shame and guilt and how bad he wants to lose that guilt. He goes in the middle of the night and stands on the scaffold, and while thinking no one is around to hear him he screams and is afraid that he might have woken up the whole town. He didn’t wake up the town but he caught the attention of Hester and Pearl who were on there way home from the deathbed of Governor Winthrop. Hester and Pearls saw him on the scaffold and they joined him and held hands. What the three of them didn’t know is that Chillingworth was standing in the distance watching them. The third scaffold scene shows repentance of Dimmesdale. This scene defines his complete turn around from a moral degenerate, to a shameful and guilty man, and in this scene he gives up his life and finally be free from his guilt and be closer to god. The scene starts out with Dimmesdale just finishing his best, most inspiring sermon ever. Afterward while everyone is making there way to the evening feast Dimmesdale makes his way to the scaffold...

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